Get ready for a special presentation from Special Presentation, which is a monthly comedy series in New York City featuring, special… uh, performances. Well, tonight's presentation is extra-special because it features our own Michael Kupperman! Join Michael tonight, Monday, April 22nd, at the UCB Theater in New York City as he presents what's sure to be a thrizziling A/V presentation at 8:00 PM. Reserve a ticket online here! Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre East is located at 153 East 3rd Street in New York City.
Photoset: Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (translated by Kim Thompson) 464-page two-color 6.75" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-557-0 A long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece recalling the summer of 1984, when the artist, a rebellious, punked-out 17-year-old, hitchhiked her way across Italy. 2011 Angoulême prize winner. Due to arrive in about 4-6 weeks. Click the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/todayisthelastday
Stumptown Comics Awards Nominees
The annual Stumptown Comics Awards nominees have been announced. Here on out, it’s a down-and-dirty voting contest so we have a few recommendation on who you should vote for (Spoiler: our books) and the fact you should ask your mom and her intense network of friends. Noah Van Sciver is up for Best Cartoonist for The Hypo. His emotionally charged drawing style added depth and charimsa to the beleaguered story of Abraham Lincoln long before he was a president. Lilli Carré is up for two awards for Best Colorist and Publication Design for Heads or Tails. Carré recently was a Lynd Ward…
Cover & Excerpt: TEOTFW by Charles Forsman
It's the end of the fucking week — and what a fucking week it's been, especially in Chuck Forsman's home state of Massachusetts. We swear it's only coincidence that on our schedule for today is this sneak peek at the final cover art and an excerpt of an upcoming graphic novel about a pair of lawless young people walking a violent path together. Our collection of Chuck's acclaimed minicomic The End of the Fucking World (a.k.a. the more bookstore-friendly TEOTFW) is due out in July. In its serialized form, TEOTFW was named to multiple Best of 2012 lists and earned praise like this: "The…
Ivan Brunetti Comic Page for Sale
Every great once in awhile, like a giant locust swarm happening on the same calendar day as a solar eclipse, Ivan Brunetti offers a page of original art for sale. This time it is the page below (detail above) from The New Yorker, the December 21, 2009 issue. All proceeds will go toward the printing of a small print run of issue 4 of the Linework anthology, a kick-ass project Brunetti helps his students and former students put together. For more work, see Ho! The Morally Questionable Cartoons of Ivan Brunetti.
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust – Previews, Pre-Order
Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life by Ulli Lust (translated by Kim Thompson) 464-page two-color 6.75" x 9" softcover • $35.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-557-0 Ships in: May 2013 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now Back in 1984, a rebellious, 17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. Miraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail…
Fantagraphics Commemorates Sub Pop’s Silver Jubilee
Make hotel reservations now for the alternative music event of the decade. Sub Pop celebrates 25 years of rockin' the world with a free concert featuring 15 bands right outside our Georgetown bookstore on July 13. The official line-up as announced by Tad Doyle, Kim Thayil, Mark Arm, and Jack Endino will be complemented by some amazing guests. (We'll leave it to your imagination, but read Tad's lips at the end of the video for a clue.) While serving as director of Seattle's Center on Contemporary Art in 1989, I somehow coerced Sub Pop moguls Bruce Pavitt and Jonathan Poneman…
Cover & Excerpt: The Daniel Clowes Reader
At the printer now for release in July, The Daniel Clowes Reader: A Critical Edition of Ghost World and Other Stories, with Essays, Interviews, and Annotations shines a whole new light on one of the greatest, most beloved graphic novels of all time along with several other classic Eightball stories and Clowes rarities. Editor Ken Parille has brought together a stable of great minds, including Clowes himself, for a plethora of fascinating and highly readable essays and other material, with topics like "Enid's Bookshelf," "Enid's Record Player," "The Rise of the Zine," "Against Groovy," and "Urban Romanticism, Mad Magazine, and the…
The ODDLAND series, new Elysian beers inspired by Jim Woodring
The Peppercorn Saison is the first of many beers in the newest collaboration between a Fantagraphics cartoonist, Jim Woodring this time, and Elysian Brewing Company, who created the 12 Beers of the Apocalypse based on Charles Burns' Black Hole art last year. The Oddland series will feature gorgeous full-color labels with a hint of bright, shimmering foil and artwork based on the ingredients. From the Elysian press release: "Head Brewer Dick Cantwell and his brainstormy gang get an idea; they run it by Woodring, who sketches his two cents' worth and sends it on back; then the recipe is…
Photoset: Good Dog by Graham Chaffee
Good Dog by Graham Chaffee 96-page black & white 8.25” x 10.25” hardcover • $16.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-653-9 Here are a few pretty pictures of the book, which should be unleashed (GET IT?) and on shelves in about 4 weeks; click the thumbnails for larger versions. Get more info, see more previews and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/gooddog
